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- Cooking Skills… the three kinds of fabrication. There’s bodily fabrication: the in-and-out breath. Verbal fabrication: directed thought and evaluation—in other words, the way you talk to yourself. You choose a topic and then you comment on it. And then mental fabrication: perceptions—the labels you apply to things, the images you apply—and then feelings, feelings of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor …
- Samvega vs. Dispassion… You don’t feel a need anymore to feed off these things, and that allows you to stop creating all the fabrications you’ve been creating around the things of the world in an effort to dress them up as food. What follows is dispassion, and that’s not a negative thing. You’re dispassionate toward all that fabrication you’ve been doing, and …
- Develop Your Inner Observer… This luminosity is a quality to be developed, which means it’s part of the path, which further means it’s conditioned and fabricated. But it’s a really useful thing to fabricate. The more sensitive you get to how the mind fabricates, even on the bare level of bare awareness, the more likely you are to get the mind inclined to want to …
- The Questions of Suffering… Fabrications fabricate thoughts, and consciousness cognizes. These are activities, and we cling to them, which means we try to get our sustenance out of them. We try to feed off of these things. That’s why we suffer. How do you feed off feelings? You want pleasant feelings. Whatever sensation comes in, you grab onto it and try to squeeze whatever pleasure you can …
- True & Beneficial… So, given that your projections and fabrications in the present moment are an important part of your experience, how do you fabricate well? The Buddha’s instructions are all about that: that it is possible to make a fabricated path, a constructed path that goes to something that is unfabricated and unconstructed. The raft doesn’t cause the other side of the river to …
- An Inner Revolution… But in the process, you get ever more subtle insights into what it means to fabricate your present experience. A question that ultimately comes up is: “Is there an alternative where you don’t have to fabricate it at all?” That’s the question you pursue. And when you find the answer, that’s when things open up to something else entirely. There’s …
- Kill Your Anger… This is where you go into the area of verbal fabrication and mental fabrication. How are you talking to yourself about the situation? Is what you’re saying really true? Is it really beneficial to talk about it that way? You can think of something irritating that someone has done again and again and again and again. Just thinking about that—that it’s …
- What You’re Choosing to Do Right Now… feelings, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness. The fact that you are fabricating these things… The way the Buddha explains it is that there’s a potential for all of these things coming in from the past, and you decide that you want a feeling, or you want a perception, so you fabricate those potentials into something you actually experience right now. What this means is that …
- Consistently on the Path… bodily fabrication, the way you breathe; verbal fabrication, the way you talk to yourself; and mental fabrication, the feelings you focus on and the perceptions you hold in mind, the images you give to yourself of the world and of yourself. As long as we do these things in ignorance, they’re going to cause suffering. If we bring some knowledge to them, they …
- More than a Sliver of Mindfulness… That allows you to look into that process of fabrication and you’ll be right on target. The problem is right there. As the Buddha said, we suffer because we fabricate things in ignorance, but we can bring knowledge to the process of fabrication. Then it becomes part of the path. And it’s sustained by developing a sense of well-being that you …
- Questions of Skill… seeing things clearly; where they come from; where they go; how you fabricate them. Well, here you’re fabricating a big fabrication—the fabrication of the mind in concentration. As Ajaan Fuang used to say, “Don’t go looking at things outside. The big problem is inside.” When the mind says that things are inconstant, stressful, not-self, the problem is not the things …
- The Broken Gong… Your inner commentary involves two levels of fabrication: what the Buddha called verbal fabrication, which is your conversation inside about the pain, and mental fabrication, the perceptions, the images you hold in mind and around the pain. One important perception to question concerns the relationship between your sensation of the body and the sensation of the pain. Are they right in the same spot …
- Chewed Up by Your Food… You’ve got the form clinging-aggregate, the feeling clinging-aggregate, the perception clinging-aggregate, fabrications and consciousness clinging-aggregates. The word for “clinging,” upadana, can also mean sustenance. We try to feed off of these things. Particularly, we try to feed off the pleasure that these things have to offer. We look for pleasure in physical things, we look for pleasant feelings, pleasant …
- Not Getting What You Want… All of these things are called saṅkhāra, fabrication. They’re things you put together. The Buddha wants you to get really good at this, because the path as a whole is the best fabricated thing there is in the world. As you put it together, you begin to gain some insight into how you not only put this together, but how you also put …
- For What It’s Worth… This way, when the Dhamma eye arises—in other words, the point of stream-entry—you’ve been seeing how you fabricate distracting thoughts and you’ve been seeing how you can fabricate very subtle states of concentration, so your sensitivity to fabrication is more and more acute. The mind reaches a point where it has no fabrication in the present moment at all …
- The Karma that Ends Karma… What is it made out of? Mostly verbal fabrication and mental fabrication. The verbal fabrication is directed thought and evaluation, two of the factors of jhana. Directed thought is when you focus your intention on an object; evaluation is when you examine the object, seeing whether you like it, don’t like it, what comments you have to make on it. These two processes …
- Dhamma Intelligence… You also begin to see mental fabrication, verbal fabrication as they’re happening right here, right now, and you gain some control over them. That’s going to be really helpful. That’ll be a necessary skill as you approach death: to see how the mind fabricates things, and to watch out for any unskillful fabrications that’ll come up. Your practical experience, your …
- Things As They Function… You trace them back to clinging and craving, feeling, sensory contact, the senses, name-and-form—in other words, your sense of the body, activities in the mind—consciousness, and fabrication. Fabrication here is three things: bodily fabrication, your in-and-out breath; verbal fabrication, your thoughts about an object, when you direct your thinking to an object and evaluate it, make comments on …
- Issues of Control… In the Buddha’s breath meditation instructions, he talks about bodily fabrication and mental fabrication. Bodily fabrication, of course, is the in-and-out breath itself. You train yourself to be aware of the whole body as you breathe in and breathe out. Then you try to calm the bodily fabrication. Why he uses that technical term may have to do with the fact …
- Hurtful Memories… In the same way, you step back, get out of your full emotional involvement with the memory, and see it simply as a process of the mind where the mind fabricates these things and then falls for its own fabrications, forgetting that it’s fabricated them. It’s like that old riddle: You’re dreaming that you’re in a boat and all the …
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